Pakistan Building Fence on Afghan Border

Pakistan’s military announced Monday that its plan to fence the entire 2,611 kms largely porous border with Afghanistan is underway and scores of new outposts are also being built to prevent terrorist infiltration. Pakistani media reported that Gen. Asif Ghafoor, Pakistan army spokesman, told reporters in Rawalpindi that a total of 338 security posts and forts will be constructed along the frontier between the two countries. Ghafoor added that 42 such installations have been built while the work on another 63 is underway. VOA radio quoting Ghafoor stated that the border management is parts of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate terrorism from the region and help internationally-backed efforts to stabilise Afghanistan. Afghan government has never accepted the Durand Line as an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and has always been a critic of the fencing plan. Meanwhile Pakistan asserts that the fencing is being performed well inside Pakistani territory and “no one has the right to raise any objection.”